"Timber Profits Or Forest Capital?" Sustainable Development of the Forest Sector in Malaysia
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Jeyamalar Kathirithamby-Wells
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Published: 2005-10-31
Total Pages: 536
ISBN-13: 9780824828639
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNature and Nation explores the relations between people and forests in Peninsular Malaysia where the planet's richest terrestrial eco-system met head-on with the fastest pace of economic transformation experienced in the tropical world. It engages the interplay of history, culture, science, economics and politics to provide a holistic interpretation of the continuing relevance of forests to state and society in the moist tropics. Malaysia has long been singled out for emulation by developing nations, an accolade contradicted in recent years by concerns over its capital-, rather than poverty-driven forest depletion. The Malaysian case supports the call for re-appraisal of entrenched prescriptions for development that go beyond material needs. -- Book cover.
Author: Joseph Buongiorno
Publisher: Academic Press
Published: 2003-02-24
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 0121413624
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Global Forest Products Model (GFPM) book provides a complete introduction to this widely applied computer model. The GFPM is a dynamic economic equilibrium model that is used to predict production, consumption, trade, and prices of 14 major forest products in 180 interacting countries. The book thoroughly documents the methods, data, and computer software of the model, and demonstrates the model's usefulness in addressing international economic and environmental issues. The Global Forest Products Model is written by an international multi-disciplinary team and is ideal for graduate students and professionals in forestry, natural resource economics, and related fields. It explains trends in world forest industries in the simplest terms by explaining the economic theory underlying the model. It describes six applications of the GFPM, three of which were commissioned by the Food Agriculture of the United Nations, the USDA Forest Service, and New Zealand Research. The authors show how to apply the model to real issues such as the effects of the Asian economic crisis on the forest sector, the effects of eliminating tariffs on international trade and production, and the international effects of national environmental policies. They provide complete explanations on how to use the GFPM software, prepare the data, make the forecasts, and summarize the results with tables and graphs. Comprehensive, and rigorous description of the world forestry sector Written by an international multi-disciplinary team Thorough description of data and methods In-depth applications to modern economic and policy issues Detailed documentation of the computer software Suitable for students, researchers, and decision makers
Author: Jomo Kwame Sundaram
Publisher: Zed Books
Published: 2004-04
Total Pages: 284
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis study of deforestation in Malaysia's three regions examines the different factors that shape them, the institutions and policies that determine forestry development, the ecological impact of deforestation, and sustainability. Much Malaysian deforestation reflects agricultural expansion or rural development and poverty alleviation projects, while logging became more significant after independence. Sabah and Sarawak have relied increasingly on the exploitation of their timber resources, and private greed and corruption at state level have overridden federal policies of sustainable management. The authors take a hard look at the economic and political forces in the international tropical timber trade. An ecologically rapacious emphasis on growth, coupled with politically powerful distribution coalitions, give little chance for policy reforms and no hope of radical change. The only pressure that has the slightest effect, it seems, is international criticism.
Author: Awang Noor Abd. Ghani
Publisher: Singapore : Economy and Environment Program for Southeast Asia
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 60
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Emil Salim
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1999-04-15
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9780521669566
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA unique report of the current status and future survival of the world's forests compiled by an international independent commission.
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Published: 1993
Total Pages: 28
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Published: 1989
Total Pages: 44
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Fadzillah M. Cooke
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780824822460
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Challenge of Sustainable Forests is an innovative piece of work that provides a range of insights into forest resource use in Malaysia and the power relations behind the working of forest policy at the local level. It explores the rich debate on development and environment to cast new light on the social and ecological dimension of forest degradation. Taking politics seriously, the book draws on the micropolitics of scientific knowledge production, in particular sustained yield technology, to examine the institutionalization of scientific forestry in forest resource management. With insights derived from fieldwork in Pahang and Sarawak, the book argues that sustainable forest management as a movement and a scientific discipline is in danger of speaking a techno-bureaucratic language similar to sustained yield, unless fundamental questions about livelihood protection and access rights to environmental and forest resources are sufficiently addressed. This process is not helped by the greater importance accorded biological and economic imperatives in conservation discourse and practice. By way of exploring this issue, The Challenge of Sustainable Forests takes a detour to the Philippines where issues of livelihood, access rights and social justice have affected management practices more seriously than in Malaysia.For sale in Asia, Australia, and New Zealand by NUS Press (Singapore)
Author: Herb Thompson
Publisher: Murdoch University
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 40
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